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Lovely hair pin Eva. The Wollo hairpin are also made as earrings, Two of these pendants on each side of the earlobe connected through a rather large hole with a male-female system. Maybe you have seen those or at a later state I will place a photo.
Very impressive the ( I think more Hammere) hair pin. The mursi women do have short cropped hair.
Hi Ingrid, thanks for your comment. I am fortunate that I can wear the hairpin as a single earring, in fact, I have been downtown today and wore it! (Smile). About the iron hairpin -it is very rudimentary, and the seller said it is Mursi, but it is possible that it is Hammar as you think. Seen from the top, there is something like a spiral form, the only part that Looks decorated.
Eva I am sure now I am curious, as a hairpin or earring? I am sure it will flatter you either way, except getting this pin through your ear hole must give you tension, as I cannot imagine western hole to be large enough. GR. Ingrid.
This is very attractive. I think they use it more for scratching and when their hair has to be redone it will be used as a separating tools. For sure a good collector's item. Well done Eva.
I was talking about the Wollo hairpin, not the iron one. It is also quite strong, but it passed through my earhole. I must confess, when I got home, I had to take it off........... it was a bit too tight.
thank you, anyway. I have no idea how they use it (the iron needle), possibly it is as you say, for separating the hair and/ or making .braids
Just as I imagined. Do not do it again, unless you replace the pin with a much thinner pin. It is the artist in you experimenting.
Yes, I have seen them being used by the Ethiopian and Eritrean women. They draw two lines with the pin and fold the hair away on each side of the lines and what is left in the middle the skull braid the hair. It takes hours to do it. Really very much as we use the comb with the pin tail.
that is interesting, thank you Ingrid!
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